Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.

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Title: Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.
Author: R. H., 1609-1678.
Publication: Oxford :: [s.n.],; 1688.
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Subject terms: Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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§. 91.

Digr. 1. Of the great impression the behaviour of the Body makes upon the Soul: And that the devotion is much increased by the body's humiliation; and, the more, if this sometimes varied.

Digr. 2. Of the several postures, and deportments of the body, used by holy men in the time of Prayer. As, Standing up; —Prostration, and falling on the face, and lying on the ground; —Contemplating the heavens (therefore go∣ing up to the house top to pray); —Lifting up, casting down, the eyes; —Lifting up, spreading forth, the hands; —Smi∣ting of the breast; — Bowing down of the head; —Bowing, ba∣ring, the knee; —kissing the ground;—Covering the Body with sackcloth, or raggs; —Sighing; —groaning; —weeping.